A Slang to Squeak refactoring tool, perhaps...
-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Raab Sent: 01 November 2007 1:00 AM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: Thoughts on a concurrent Squeak VM
tim Rowledge wrote:
Yes, we could probably rewrite a lot of code currently in C
source files
and put it into Slang methods. Yes, we could probably improve Slang (we tried to get some of that done at Interval but ran out of time) to be more friendly. Yes, we could do lots of things. Got time to do them? Or money to pay me/Craig/Andreas/Ian/John/Mike/Bryce/whoever to do it fulltime? That's the kind of thing that would be required to be able to make any major changes
Well, but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. Improvements would be welcome, in particular if they are easy to review and to integrate. It is probably unwise to start this as the lets-rewrite-the-vm-and-its-tools-from-scratch approach but there are plenty of things that we could do better. For example, I would welcome a patch that enables the code generator to optionally build the entire VM as an object. That'd be a very nice stepping stone towared a multi-threaded VM and can probably be done in a fairly incremental way.
Cheers,
- Andreas